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3 New Tricks. One Girdle. And How to Send Your Clients Beautiful Updates *Automatically*.

SO MANY FUN THINGS YOU CAN DO NOWWWWADAYS.

(She says as she hikes up her girdle.)

Here are a few cool things I can't stop making goo-goo-gah-gah sounds over (it's really very attractive):
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  • Think you look like a bearded goat on camera? Riverside now has a built in ring light that appears right on your screen. ๐Ÿ˜ฒ๐Ÿ˜ฒ๐Ÿ˜ฒ Wuttttttttttttttttt.
  • Claude now has a KILLER personal finance tool. ๐Ÿ’ฐ I synced my accounts, and it instantly told me super insightful things like: a) How long the cash in my checking account will actually cover my upcoming expenses; b) Which bills I have coming up on which dates (without having to manually program all of this in like other apps); c) How much money I've paid in bank fees in the last 3 months (ohhhh, a $795 annual credit card fee?! THAT'S CUTE, ASH); d) Which subscriptions I have ongoing (and which ones I should probably cut ๐Ÿ”ช...like the $10/month to...The Tree Center??? LOL); e) AND, even a tool that helps me plan around uneven income. <โ€”That one is worth it alone for any entrepreneur. Seriously looking at it right now, and it's the most useful planning tool I've ever seen...without me having to become a personal finance wizard.
  • Speaking of new Claude power tools! Claude Sheets are also brand-new, so you know what I added inside of Claude for Business Owners??? A client project tracker that automatically sends updates to your clients, every time you change the project status (kickoff, in progress, waiting on client, in review, done), and emails them a standard update with: what's done, what's up next, what you still need from them, and what they have coming up next in their project queue, and in what orderโ€”even inviting them to reply by email to re-order their project queue if they'd like to reprioritize. Talk about setting boundaries without even having to say it! (Solves the scope creep problem effortlessly; if they want to add something to your plate, they certainly can, but need to de-prioritize other requests.) Even better? If status changes to "waiting on client," and client doesn't respond, it will follow up with them twice, and then flag a human. And finally? Every Friday, it sends them one big week-end summary showing all the deliverables you created, instantly reinforcing your value...without you ever having to write a single update email. And THAT is how you stay in your deep workflow, while still providing excellent customer service. ๐Ÿ˜Ž Play around with it yourself, or grab my class and get the exact prompt to build this for your business.
  • Spacefast looks sick! From the makers of Wordpress.com & WooCommerce.
  • ALSOOOOO, I just need to tell you that I recently received some holiday catalogues that make biology textbooks seem lively and engaging. We cannot have this. ๐Ÿคฃ These companies are spending so! much! money! to print and send these gorgeous things in the actual, physical mailโ€”and they're basically doing it with dog shit smeared all over them. Would you buy from a catalogue that has dog shit smeared all over it? Probably not. And yet! That is what reading these feels like. Fairly certain they recycled the captions from the 1995 Sears magazine. (And then used again and again and again every year since.) We must put a stop to this. Hold my beer. [Idea loading . . . ]
The short answer: How can I automatically send my clients project updates? I use a client project tracker built with Claude Sheets, which I added inside Claude for Business Owners. Every time you change a project's status, it emails your client what's done, what's up next, what you still need from them, and their project queue. If you're waiting on the client and they don't respond, it follows up twice, then flags a human. Every Friday, it sends a week-end summary of your deliverables.

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